NYC Surpasses 1M Coronavirus Vaccinations

NEW YORK CITY — New York City hit a milestone in its coronavirus vaccination effort — 1 million doses went into arms, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

De Blasio announced the achievement Tuesday in somewhat subdued tones. He previously set a goal to surpass a million doses by the end of January, but ongoing vaccine supply woes delayed the pace of vaccinations.

Still, the number of vaccinations — 1,032,158 total doses — is more than the population of San Jose, California, de Blasio said.

“This is a really good sign of what we can do in this city, but we could be doing so much more,” he said. “We're literally not able to do hundreds of thousands of vaccinations ... for lack of supply.”

The city’s vaccination network is capable of performing 500,000 vaccinations a week, de Blasio has repeatedly claimed.

But so far de Blasio’s claim hasn’t been fully put to the test.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo pointed out Monday, the entire state is only receiving 300,000 vaccine doses a week and there are now roughly 10 million New Yorkers eligible for vaccinations.

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